A review by gregzimmerman
My Struggle, Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgård

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

 

A theory: These Knausgaard books are for middle-aged (sometimes pretentious?) white dudes what Ali Hazelwood or Emily Henry books are Millennial and Gen Z women: Pure reading enjoyment. 

Three books in now, and I’m really loving this, though I’m still at a little bit of a loss to explain exactly why.

This third book is about Knausgaard’s childhood and his cruel father and beginning to discover his love for books…and girls. He cries a lot, does stupid kid things like throw rocks at cars, and starts figuring out how the world works.

Normally the childhood section of any memoir is my least favorite part, but this was really fascinating. Onward to the fourth….